Lee West

Saints fan (obviously); #oilspill and #fracking watchdog, technophile, communicator, filmmaker, writer, dolphin hugger. Opinions I share here are mine alone.

[Lee West @WhoDat35]

One billionaire owner, twice the hate: #Twitter hate #speech surged with Musk, study says. https://t.co/ednwdXXTGP

[Houston Chronicle @HoustonChron]

Opinion: This new tsunami of Elon Musk financing for Ken Paxton and others will only make the links between corruption and campaign finance reform that much more obvious, writes Casey Michel, a former Houston journalist.
https://t.co/G2RZ8D72Wf

[Joaquin Castro @JoaquinCastrotx]

Losing an election is not grounds for asylum.

Yet the Trump Administration is giving Flávio Bolsonaro safe haven in the United States. In Brazil, he is under investigation for alleged corruption, money laundering and currency evasion, and was ordered to surrender his passports.

The Trump Administration owes Congress answers on its role helping Bolsonaro flee Brazil in contravention of Brazilian law.

https://t.co/x9mZ6m6rLf

[Scott Maxwell @Scott_Maxwell]

First $485k. Then $65k. Now $250k.
The settlements with employees fired for comments about Charlie Kirk keep mounting.
So do legal bills - at up to $925/hr.
There’s a real cost to taxpayers to the state’s war on speech in the “Free State of Florida"
https://t.co/gBrkNVcUBY

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

But keep telling us how elitist Obama is

[Tammy Duckworth @SenDuckworth]

Trump admitted he blocked energy funding to punish blue states he lost in 2024, including $586 million for Illinois.

Courts ruled it illegal. He's still blocking the money.

Bipartisan permitting reform won't work if Trump ignores the law. He must reinstate the grants first.

[Karen Piper @PiperK]

According to the book, Kushner got Tillerson fired for a $50 million UAE payment because Tillerson supported Qatar. This panicked Qatar because they realized Kushner was a pay-to-play operative, so they bought Kushner's New York City apartments, which were in the red, hoping this would help.

[Farnoush Amiri @FarnoushAmiri]

Wow. US envoy Mike Waltz & Cuban FM Bruno Rodriguez Parilla are having a shout-off on floor of UN General Assembly where FM walked up to the podium where Waltz is speaking & called him a liar.
“You understand who you’re dealing with? This is America. Back up,” Waltz yelled back.

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

Strategic bombing is real, finally.

[Thomas Kennedy @tomaskenn]

This is a hostage situation by global financial interests that don’t want governments elected that don’t serve their interests. When their preferred right wing government wins, they institute austerity and impoverish the population, case in point, Milei in Argentina.

[David J. Bier @David_J_Bier]

ICE has detained this mentally ill US citizen in the Miami Detention Center in Indiana (an immigration prison) b/c he's deluded himself into believing he's the son of a Jamaican Prime Minister, even tho he has a Florida birth certificate. ICE really wants to deport him.

[Explored Fiction @ExploredFiction]

@RpsAgainstTrump Flavio goes to prison in January after his protections as a senator end and he can be tried for his Rachadinha and Banco Master crimes so obviously he's terrified of ending up like daddy. He'll spend the next few months suing everyone to annul it then bounce to Florida in January

[Evan @daviddunn177]

Jared Kushner made a deal with the United Arab Emirates

Mohamed bin Zayed told him he wanted Rex Tillerson fired as Secretary of State

He was fired

The next month, the UAE sent $50 million dollars to a bank account for Jared Kushner in Cyprus

And Hunter Biden sold a painting

[Jason Garcia @Jason_Garcia]

New story and 🧵:

Earlier this month, just a few days before early voting began, Ken Griffin, a hedge fund executive worth an estimated $57 billion, sent seven-figure donations to a pair of Florida politicians who seem to be stuck in surprisingly competitive elections...

[Carl Bildt @carlbildt]

This is interesting. Key Putin 🇷🇺 aide Ushakov admits that the Anchorage plan of having Trump 🇺🇸 force Zelensky 🇺🇦 into agreeing to their demands hasn’t worked because of the role of Europe. That’s it: if Europe stays the course, 🇷🇺 can’t win.

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

Armed Customs & Border Patrol agents stopped a person right in front of a polling place in Key Largo which is prohibited in Florida. It’s where people from different
National Origins come to vote. A bartender was able to record the whole thing & he says it was deliberate.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

This is a lie.

[Robert Young Pelton @RYP__]

The right wing bullshit machine is on full send. It is impressive how many hired American MAGA influencers suddenly became experts on Brazil.

[Karen Piper @PiperK]

Unfortunately, Robert Mueller was only tasked with investigating Trump's campaign involvement with Russia, which means anything after he was elected wasn't subject to investigation.

Mueller's team mainly focused on the Trump Tower meeting, which Emin set up. 2/

[Karen Piper @PiperK]

Kushner's phone logged into a UAE bank account that received "hundreds of millions of dollars" from the Azerbaijani government around 2018. This isn't surprising to me.

The Trump family has had close ties to Azerbaijan since 2013 through Emin Agalarov, who married the daughter of Azerbaijan's president. 1/

[אביגדור ליברמן @AvigdorLiberman]

פניתי הבוקר ליועצת המשפטית לממשלה בדרישה לפתוח בחקירה פלילית נגד בנימין נתניהו באשמת בגידה.

בחודש האחרון ראש ממשלת ישראל, בנימין נתניהו, לוחץ על ראשי מערכת הביטחון לנקוט צעדים שעלולים לייצר מיסקלקולציה מול איראן.

הניסיון לגרור את מדינת ישראל ערב הבחירות למלחמה, יחד עם הנכונות להקריב את חיילי צה״ל רק בשל חשש מהפסד בבחירות, הם בגידה במדינה, בביטחונה ובחיילי צה״ל.